Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Alternative combination: Pontosphaera bigelowii
Belongs to Braarudosphaera according to M. S. G. Estebenet et al. 2020
See also Bown 1998 and Perez Panera 2013
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaera africana, Braarudosphaera hockwoldensis, Braarudosphaera regularis, Braarudosphaera stenorhetha, Braarudosphaera turbinea
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection)
• Miocene of India (1), Slovakia (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of United States (1: Georgia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), France (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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